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Intro -- Title Page -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- A NOTE ON THE FISHER NAMES -- DRAMATIS PERSONAE -- PROLOGUE -- 1: GERMAN-RUSSIAN BEGINNINGS -- 2: NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE -- 3: GUN-RUNNING -- 4: TO THE COAST -- 5: RETURN TO RUSSIA -- 6: RECRUITMENT -- 7: SCANDINAVIAN MISSION -- 8: HOMEAGAIN - MOSCOW AND LONDON -- 9: THE GREAT PURGE -- 10: SPECIAL TASKS -- 11: TRAINING FOR A NEW ASSIGNMENT -- 12: FIRST US MISSIONS -- 13: INDERCOVER ARTIST -- 14: TESTING TIMES -- 15: TRIAL -- 16: EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS -- 17: AN UNQUIET DEATH -- EPILOGUE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- NOTES -- INDEX -- Plates -- Copyright -- Advertisement.

Discover an extraordinary, true-life adventure that could have appeared straight from the pages of a John le Carré Cold War novel. In February 1962 Gary Powers, the American pilot whose U-2 spy plane was shot down over Soviet Union airspace, was released by his Russian captors in exchange for one of their own, Soviet KGB Colonel Vilyam Fisher. Colonel Fisher was remarkable, not least because he was born plain Willie Fisher at number 142 Clara Street, Benwell, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Willie's revolutionary parents fled Russia in 1901, settling in the north-east, where Willie was brought up to